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authorJosh Coalson <jcoalson@users.sourceforce.net>2003-08-28 23:47:15 +0000
committerJosh Coalson <jcoalson@users.sourceforce.net>2003-08-28 23:47:15 +0000
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more verbiage about "make check"
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The 'make check' step is optional; omit it to skip all the tests,
which can take several hours and use around 70-80 megs of disk space.
+Even though it will stop with an explicit message on any failure, it
+does print out a lot of stuff so you might want to capture the output
+to a file if you're having a problem. Also, don't run 'make check'
+as root because it confuses some of the tests.
NOTE: Despite our best efforts it's entirely possible to have
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